Driven mad by eugenics: a true crime drama from Spain
Eugenics with assisted reproduction technology is not new. Francis Galton, Charles Darwin’s cousin, devised schemes for making higher and lower humans without the assistance of...
1000 Australian patients lodge class action against cosmetic surgeons
A class action lawsuit by nearly 1000 patients will begin soon in the Australian state of Victoria. The defendants are retired celebrity cosmetic surgeon Daniel...
Two in three cosmetic surgery injections in the UK are not administered by doctors
As many as 68% of cosmetic practitioners who are administering injections such as Botox are not qualified medical doctors, according to an analysis of the...
Faster, higher, stronger with drugs: the Enhanced Olympics
Marion Jones. Lance Armstrong. Ben Johnson. Tim Montgomery. Svetlana Podobedova. The list of drug cheats, athletes who were stripped of gold medals because they used...
Miklos Lukacs: a perceptive observer of the rise of transhumanism
Surely there must be a thread linking the great bioethical and cultural challenges of our time: transgenderism, transhumanism, artificial reproduction, population decline, wokeism (or post-modernism,...
More than 200 people have been treated with experimental CRISPR therapies
Scientists believe that CRISPR gene editing technologies will transform medicine. But how many people have been treated so far? According to a report in MIT...
Is genome editing back on scientists’ agenda?
A three-day summit is taking place in London this week to discuss human genome editing. This is the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing....
Do Americans support embryo testing for complex traits like IQ?
Americans are surprisingly supportive of embryo testing for traits such as intelligence, according to an article in the leading journal Science by a group of...
He did it. Not clear if he’s sorry
The doctor at the heart of a genetic engineering scandal in China has been released from jail and spoke with The Guardian in an exclusive...
A brief history of California’s eugenics program — which ran from 1909-2013
It is a commonsense view that government spending is generally inefficient compared to spending by private people and businesses. As the Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton...
Nature’s mea culpa for promoting eugenics
Earlier this year, the world’s leading science journal, Nature, and its companion journals embarked upon a campaign to purge from their pages discrimination and inequality...
Fertility watchdog wants to overhaul UK laws on embryos
The UK’s fertility regulator is seeking to liberalise techniques for manipulating human embryos in assisted reproduction and research. The Guardian describes its plans as “the...